 Poster: A snowHead
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Launching its "Winter-ski 2005 website" - www.ryanair.com/ski - Ryanair now claims to offer 28 destination airports for skiers. Here they are, quoting from their press release (click here):
ITALY
Milan, Trieste, Turin, Venice, Verona
FRANCE
Grenoble, Perpignan, Pau, Rodez, Montpellier, St Etienne
AUSTRIA
Friedrichshafen, Linz, Salzburg, Graz
SPAIN
Zaragoza, Barcelona-Girona, Granada, Santander, Santiago De Compostela, Valencia, Valladolid, Almeria
NORWAY
Oslo, Haugesund
SCOTLAND
Glasgow
POLAND
Krakow
LITHUANIA
Bratislava
The Spanish list looks very impressive. I guess the definition of a 'ski destination' airport depends on how long the transfer is going to be to the nearest resort. I haven't a clue with some of those airports. Any comments? And how do Ryanair's destinations now compare with the major national carriers?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Santiago de Compostela? Glasgow? Skiing?
They're having the usual Ryanair laugh. They perform a service by flying to loads of out of the way places, sometimes cheaply. I don't think I could get me + all my ski kit on a Ryanair flight these days. Restrictive baggage limits.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Interesting point. One of the 3 resorts Ryanair say is serviced by Santiago de Compostela airport is 'Leitariegos', offering "5.44 km of alpine skiing area".
Now, I'd contend that 5km of skiing is actually a huge amount for, say, a beginner. Someone (obviously not us!) could have a brilliant start in the sport in one of these obscure places.
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The positive thing about Ryanair is the prices. I choose to use them because of their low fares. £0.29 e/w to some of those places, with taxes making a total of about £25. You can't beat that. Easyjet rarely compares on prices these days, particularly at popular times.
I would also contest the "out of the way places", you can get on the slopes as quickly (if not quicker?) from Milan or Turin as you can from Geneva or Zurich. Flying to Salzburg, Grenoble, Friedrichshafen also present excellent opportunities.
The frequency and timing of the flights also makes weekend options very viable.
Still, I'm not out to persuade other people to use them, the more that do, the more expensive their flights will be.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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David Goldsmith, not convinced. Have you checked the "resorts" website? It's about a 4 hour drive.
Ray Zorro, Milan Bergamo? You are having a laugh. Turin on the other hand is useful but the timings aren't great if you work 9-5. Neither is Stansted. And if anything goes wrong...
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Obviolusly the same PR agency as Vail!
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I see they don't mention that they came top in the 'Most Disappointing low-cost airline' section of the Telegraph Travel Awards at the weekend. 
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David Murdoch blurb should read
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....that are further from resort than you'd prefer.
Ok, so some of the French list e.g. St Etienne is just as good as, say, Lyon. But no better. And for crying out loud Rodez is nearly in the middle of the county.
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With Ryanair you get what you get. Cheap flights but at a price ie. restricted weight limits, adverts virtually throughout the flight, hard selling of flight routes etc. but we all have choices and make our own. For me they've been a life changing company, I visited Italy for skiing a few years ago just because of the cheap flights available in the school half term week. I loved the place so much we've visited many areas and have now just about completed our purchase of a holiday home in central Italy. It's less than an hour to the slopes, 40 mins to fantastic beaches and enough mountain biking to last me a life time. Hopefully when the kids have departed we'll be moving there for good, so it may have it's problems and knockers but for me............ thankyou Ryanair!
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It's only about 10 minutes to the new snow dome from Glasgow airport, pity they fly to Prestwick really 
Though I did have a good holiday in La Thuile a couple of years ago from Bergamo.
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As Grimsby Ranger said, you know what you're getting from Ryanair.
I have just booked 4 flights to Salzburg for January 18th, returning Jan 24th.
Flight per person: £36.77 rtn
Flight for my skis: £34.00 rtn
Now I know some people moan about the ski price, but in reality, the 'person' flight is so cheap that an extra £34 is neither here nor there.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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the prices at the moment are slashed by 75%. Just had a scoot round the site at various options and the prices are ridiculous!!!
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| zammo wrote: |
Flight per person: £36.77 rtn
Flight for my skis: £34.00 rtn
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That's only marginally cheaper than flights I've booked with BA from Heathrow to Geneva. Ryanair can be wonderfully cheap, but their ski surcharge means their prices are not that much cheaper than other airlines flying to the Alps.
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You know it makes sense.
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rob@rar.org.uk,
Speed Ferries £25.00 each way* + Petrol or Diesel + Peage tolls. But no transfer taxi or hire car costs. No parking cost's in resort either (for some )
*But, this months visit using the Channel tunnel £65.00 each way (sensible times of day!)
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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boredsurfin, that's a good price for the Chunnel, but driving only works if there's at least two of you. Most of my trips this season I'll be travelling out by myself, so flying is the cheapest option.
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Poster: A snowHead
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rob@rar.org.uk, There is absolutley no way I would be allowed to go Skiing without wife or Daughter's. Even the suggestion that I might go skiing without them is always met with 'If your going skiing so are we!'
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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boredsurfin, I go skiing without the SO. I leave him behind, so that he can continue to fund my spending habits, though honest toil.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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boredsurfin, oh dear, you need a lads trip once in a while, we've started a yearly early doors trip to Tignes leaving 1st December back on the 5th this year......it's only a long weekend trip.......etc. Start sowing the seeds now
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Fortunately Jane is happy to let me go without her. She's an angel!
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| rob@rar.org.uk wrote: |
| Fortunately Jane is happy to let me go without her. She's an angel! |
An understatement methink's!
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boredsurfin, fair enough mate, it's great skiing with the kids anyway. If they're anything like mine they're great fun on the slopes.
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Oi Grimsby Ranger, I am the wife of one of your mates (and good mate of your wife) and you wanna be careful wot u say. You just redeemed yourself at the death by mentioning your sprogs!! 
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Great forum guys, cant get enough!!
Ian Hopkinson, Er.. no, I'm a bloke who goes skiing with Grimsby Ranger, but my missus saw his posts and intervened!!!! 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Welcome to you both then. Thought I was losing my marbles! Mrs K is allowed her own login... 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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SteveKirby, flippin'eck, you'd better change your password otherwise I could drop myself right in it
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Grimsby Ranger, Will do!! You know what she like, an hour at Castleford and she's an expert with an opinion on everything!! (he says ducking and flinching!)
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You know it makes sense.
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Grimsby Ranger, Will do!! You know what she like, an hour at Castleford and she's an expert with an opinion on everything!! (he says ducking and flinching!)
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I wouldn't be happy if mine went off without me, having said that I may be off without him (but I'll be working at the Paralympics)
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Poster: A snowHead
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I want to see the person who buys a ticket to Bratislava and finds himself in Lithuania 
I hope at least the pilot has a map...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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kerekip, yes, but it's probably the map on ryanair's website, no doubt 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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They say Oslo but really it is Oslo Torp which is an extra couple of hours drive I think to the likes of Lillihammer. So they may be cheap but the transfer price will kill you.
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